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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1916)
) I THE NEBRASKA STOCKMAN SECTION OF The Alliance Herald. Read by Every Member Nebraska Stock Gros Association. It Reaches Headquarters for and Western Nebraska Official Organ Nebraska Volunteer Firemen' wers Association. All the News of Alliance 15,000 Firemen VOLUME 1. MAY. 1916. NUMBER 11. i - r.s 1 It IT" H ; v Convention Dates June 20 and 21 (iood Allendaiice Kxpet-ted at Annual Convention of Nebraska Stork Growers Association. MKK.TIXU IX OPKKA 1IOISK AT ALMAXCK Mutdcal Program To lie til von In Ad dition to Speeches by Prominent Men In Stockdoin. The 191 6 convention of the Ne braska StockgrowerB Association will be held in Alliance on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 20th and 21st, the meetings to be held at the Opera House. There will be no celebration this year, although there will be spe cial features on the program, includ ing musical selections and speeches tendance is expected. Visitors will be here from South Omaha, Sioux City, St. Joseph, Kansas City, Denver and other stock markets. National Convention South Omaha Well lU-preMeiited at Amiiitl Convention of Natloiiil .1 ' V.vk Kii:ii';i. The delegation elected by the South Omaha Live Stock Exchange to attend the 28th annual convention of Jhe National Live Stock Exchange, which was held In Cincinnati on May 18th to 20th, left Omaha in a special car over the Burlington, on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30. May 16th. Included in the party were J. O. Ingwersen, president of the South Omaha Live Stock Kxchange, and Mrs. Ingwersen; W. B. Tagg. vice- of certain packers In buying their supplies direct In the country, and In that way depressing the open mar kets, lowering the price paid the pro ducer for live stock with a view of curtailing the demand at the markets and eventually putting the buying power in the hands of a few men in stead of having open and free com petition at all the markets. This and other matters of importance to the different exchanges and to the live stock industry were taken up and discussed. Mr. E. L. Burke, who is vice chairman of the market committee, appointed by the American National Live Stock Association at their con vention in El Paso, Texas, January, 1916, and who has been a member of the firm of Kent & Burke, who have been big stock feeders in Nebraska for many years, delivered a paper on Friday, May 19th, the subject of which' was "The Commission Man intentional omission. In this territory mean more rapid growm ror the market. The Omaha delegation stopped over in St. Louis a few hours Wed nesday morning, viewing the sights of that city, after which they Joined the St. Louis delegation and left to gether Wednesday noon over the Big Four for Cincinnati. VMNTKNTIOXAli OMISSION In the large advertisement of Har phniu Bros. Co. which was published In the April Issue of The Nebraska Stockman, a list of sixty persons and firms who handle these goods, In the territory In which The Stockman and Herald have their principal circula tion, should have been published, but by mistake one of these was omitted. It was the name of II. H. Squires, prominent business man of Broken Bow. We make this mention jl norder to make amends for the un- -' - i f . - - t . - - if ; . v . -. ,rnfc ttn.i if 'i SCKNK OK ItANCII OF HI KKMAN 'itlUM., THYOX, XKItUASKA . ! These "Pride of the Sand HUN" were sold on the Smith Omaha market, July, 1014, by the Ket-orri Live Stock Coiiiuilsslon Co., for $f).04 xt cwt., the highest price ever paid at that market for horned, kmi runge steers. by -prominent men. The tentative program Is as fol lows: Tuesday, June 20th. 10:00 a. m. Meeting of executive committee. 2:00 p. m. Opening business ses sion. Report of secretary. Report of brand inspector. Regular business. 8:00 p. m. Musical program. Speaking. Subjects. "Vacclna- tlon for Anthrax," "Marketing of Cattle,' 'and other subjects of interest to members attend ing. Wednesday, June 21st. 10:0O a. m. Business meeting. Repart of committees. . .Election of of leers. 2:00 p. m. Business session. The sessions will be held at the Phelan Opera House. A good at- president of the National Live Stock Exchange, and Mrs. Tagg; E. Buck ingham, vice-president and manager of the Union Stock Yards Company, and Mrs. Buckingham; J. II. Bulla, president of the Traders' Exchange, and Mrs. Bulla; Will II. Wood, chair man of the Stock Yards and Railroad Committee of the Live Stock Ex change; Mr. A. F. Stryker .secretary traffic manager of the South Omaha Live Stock Exchange; A. C. Daven port, general manager of the Drovers Journal-Stockman; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Werthelmer, and Mr. and Mrs. Grant Kiddoo, and Mr. J. B. Root. The 28th annual meeting of the National Live Stock Exchange is des tined to be one of the most Important in the history of the organization. At their meeting In Indianapolis a year ago a special committee was appoint ed by the National Live Stock Ex change to work against the practice from the Producer's Standpoint." This -was a very interesting paper. Mr. Burke's years of experience fit him for such a task. Mr. A. C. Davenport, general man ager of the Journal-Stockman at South Omaha, also delivered a paper on Saturday, May 20th, on "The Value of the Live Stock Exchange." Mr. Davenport has been writing the live stock and produce markets for many years, and has been In a posi tion to get an insight into the mar keting of live stock from all sides, and he is in an exceptionally good position to write as to the real value of the Live Stock Exchange. The interests at the South Omaha market have been working for sev eral years in an effort to build up the market by boosting the live stock in dustry in all of its different phases, realizing that better service and bet ter conditions affecting the Industry Buying Arizona Cattle There is quite a demand Jut now In the grating states of the central and northern parts of th's country for more cattle to pasture the comlna; summer. T. J. Donahue, of the live stock commission firm of Donahue- Randall & Co., South Omaha, recent ly went to Arizona to buy eight or ten thousand good grade, white face cattle to fill orders . He expected to return about the first of June, and if he has not secured all that he wants by that time his place In the field will be taken by Allen Randall. These gentlemen Inform The Ne braska Stockman that they will be represented In Alliance at the time of the convention In June, and that they "Will bo "there with both feet." It will pay :u to become a gu lar advertiser In The Nebraska Stockman. Fifteen decades sweep us up to the I "'; -y TV V-h' h 1jtJ, flndl,ne 1B .-... !(. " r . lln H IT-ill v not III l.r iiemruuie, ine j rives It will be Immediately set upl"" 1 7 T C ti iT iri T'. r